Podcast appearances and mentions of bart lorang

On today's episode of Gritty Founder, Kreig Kent talks with Bart Lorang about his journey as an entrepreneur and how he built FullContact. Bart shares valuable insights on emotional intelligence and the importance of staying lean as your business grows. Bart Lorang is co-founder and CEO of FullContact, managing director of v1.vc, lifelong tech entrepreneur and investor. He is the husband to Sarah Lorang and the father of Greyson and Sophie Lorang. He is also passionate about helping fellow entrepreneurs on their long, difficult journey. Some Questions Kreig asks Bart: - How did you come up with the idea for FullContact? (23:37) - Who was your first major customer? (35:00) - What advice can you give founders who are in the early stages of starting a company? (37:33) - If you could go back in time, what advice would you give yourself? (38:07) - What are some red flags an early-stage founder should be aware of when looking for a co-founder? (40:28) In This Episode, You Will Learn: - About Bart's background and how he became an entrepreneur (4:20) - The importance of emotional intelligence (16:25) - How Bart started FullContact (23:37) - Don't let your mistakes deter you (37:41) - Stay nimble and lean (38:16) - Bart's thoughts on work-life balance (38:57) - The difference between a business and a product (41:27) Connect with Bart Lorang: Twitter FullContact Also Mentioned on This Show... Bart’s favorite quote: “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” ―George S. Patton Bart’s book recommendation: Principles by Ray Dalio

 Hey everyone! In today’s episode, I share the mic with Bart Lorang, the CEO of FullContact, which is a cloud-based contact management platform for professionals.   Tune in to hear how Bart has been a software entrepreneur since he was 8 years-old, how he got the idea for FullContact after selling his first company at 16 years-old, and the importance of finding good leadership!  Click here for show notes and transcript Leave Some Feedback: What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed Connect with Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @EricSiu

Episode 34: Bart Lorang – FullContact, Inc Bart Lorang is CEO and Founder of FullContact and Managing Director of v1.vc Funding Partners and Startup Colorado. Born and raised in Bozeman, Montana, Bart is a proven entrepreneur, executive and manager in the global technology industry. He is active in the startup technology community as an investor, mentor, writer and speaker. Links to things we talk about: Bart Lorang on LinkedIn FullContact, Inc Principles by Ray Dalio Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business The Three-Body Problem IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR, PLEASE: Subscribe to our list Connect with us on Twitter Email us and tell us what you think!

Bart Lorang is the co-founder and CEO of FullContact, a SaaS product that helps you manage your contacts and relationships better. It transforms partial contact information into complete profiles and more useful customer data. The Show Notes FullContact LifeHacker - Rainmaker Automatically Updates Your Google Contacts with Data from Social Networks Bart on Twitter Omer on Twitter Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue. Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.

Bart Lorang is the co-founder and CEO of FullContact, a SaaS product that helps you manage your contacts and relationships better. It transforms partial contact information into complete profiles and more useful customer data.The Show NotesFullContactLifeHacker - Rainmaker Automatically Updates Your Google Contacts with Data from Social NetworksBart on TwitterOmer on TwitterEnjoyed this episode?Subscribe to the podcastLeave a rating and reviewFollow Omer on TwitterNeed help with your SaaS?1. Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support.2. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue.3. Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.

For this fifteenth episode, I talked to Bart Lorang, Founder & CEO of FullContact, who are on a mission to revolutionize contact data. Before FullContact, Bart had 3 other companies, respectively in RPG games, web design and enterprise software. He grew up in rural Montana and now runs FullContact from Boulder, Colorado, 30 minutes from the ski slopes. We talk about how his wife’s address book inspired FullContact, how he aligns the 300 brains in his organization, and how he encourages a culture that is about the whole person. Read the transcript here: https://blog.salesflare.com/bart-lorang-fullcontact

Bart Lorang, Co-Founder and CEO at FullContact, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "New Channels For Lead Engagement & Intel."

Bart Lorang, Co-Founder and CEO at FullContact, joins the Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast to discuss "New Channels For Lead Engagement & Intel."

Interview with the founder of Full Contact CRM software

Bart Lorang is the founder and CEO of FullContact. FullContact is a high-growth, venture-backed company (having raised $50 mm) with 250 employees and multiple offices across the world. Bart and I discuss work-life balance and how Bart balances self-care, spending time with two young kids, while being a devoted father/husband. Bart drops amazing CEO wisdom on how empathy can be learned, thwarting your team’s fight or flight reflex and how culture is meaningless if it doesn’t terrify people. + SPONSOR: Join Skillshare the online learning community with 16,000+ classes in business, design and more. Get one free month of unlimited access. http://skillshare.com/rad + SHOW NOTES: bit.ly/radpod16 + SHOW SOME LUV: patreon.com/radreads  

Bart Lorang is the Founder & CEO @ FullContact, the leading contact platform for professionals, teams and businesses. They have raised over $45m in funding from some of the best in the business and dear friends of the show in the likes of Foundry Group with Brad Feld, David Cohen and Techstars and Howard Lindzen at Social Leverage just to name a few. As well as being the rockstar founder @ FullContact, Bart has a unique position as he is also Managing Director @ V1.vc, a seed stage VC fund based in Colorado and San Francisco, providing Bart unique insight into both founding and investing in companies at the same time. CLICK TO PLAY CLICK TO LISTEN ON ITUNES In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Bart made his way into the world of early stage startups and came to found FullContact? 2.) Bart is also a VC with V1, how does being both a founder and a VC affect how Bart views startups and operates @ FullContact? What have been the key learnings for Bart with regards to capital allocation and portfolio construction? 3.) Bart has a CEO coach being the famous, Jerry Colonna, so what was the catalyst for Bart's desire to have a CEO coach? What have been the inflection points in Bart's journey with Jerry? Should every CEO have a CEO coach? 4.) What does Bart believe are the core tenets to successful negotiation? What can be done to ensure a win-win situation for both parties? From what mindset should this be approached? Does Bart agree that you should only monetise to 30% of your value? 5.) Why does Bart pay every employee $7,500 per year to go on holiday on top of their standard salary? Whare the the key rules to ensure this is successful? What are the key benefits that can be derived from this essential vacation? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Bart’s Fave Book: Jonathan Livingston Seagull Bart’s Fave Blog: Abundance Insider by Peter Diamandis As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Bart on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. eShares is the No 1 Cap Table Management platform, allowing for equity management, 409A valuations, and liquidity, all in one place. eShares is made for companies of all sizes with over 5,000 trusted customers including the likes of Squarespace, Kickstarter, and DoorDash just to name a few. To try out the must have service of the industry, simply head over to esharesinc.com it is a must. Fond is the employee engagement suite with 3 core products, rewards: a recognition platform for rewarding achievements and milestones, perks: a premium corporate discounts program to show employees you care about them and then finally engagement IQ, a free employee engagement survey that allows you to measure the health of your organization. To check it out head over to fond.co

Listen in as Bart and I sound off about the business power that can be unleashed by tapping into the human side of people. You’ll hear us talk about: Stories:The powerful story about why he has a conference room named after his grandmother The story of how people reacted the first time he showed vulnerability as a leader and why it changed his perspective The ‘why’ for his business The radical self inquiry he has gone through to get to where he is today Why he’s compelled to share a message of empathy   All Things Culture: Including their mission “To Be Awesome with People” The No Asshole RuleThe role of vulnerability Getting employees and customers to feel like they’re part of something bigger     Emotion at Work: What it takes as a leader to get employees to open up at work and how Bart leads the charge A specific ‘red’, ‘yellow’, ‘green’ technique Bart and his team use to make sure people are being transparent Why Bart feels comfortable talking about emotion at work and why he thinks you should too How he makes sure he’s connecting with each of his employees   Tips, Tools and Resources: Strengthening your EQ - Tips Utilizing a Chief People Officer to decrease the amount of ‘couch time’ he is spending with people The obituary exercise: Outlining the kind of leader you’d like to be Best advice he ever received from a mentor Advice he’d give his 20 year old self if they were having coffee Be Awesome with People

Bart Lorang, a proven entrepreneur executive and manager in the global technology industry. He’s very active in the startup community as an angel investor, strategic advisor, and speaker at many industry events. In fact, he supports entrepreneurs in his co-founder position and is managing director at V1.vc, a $5 million dollar, seed-stage fund dedicated to help crazy entrepreneurs change the world. More importantly, he’s an entrepreneur himself. He’s currently running FullContact which is responsible for communicating its vision and strategy. He’s a visionary technologist with extensive experience conceiving, designing, building, marketing, and selling enterprise software solutions on a global scale. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Hard Thing About Hard Things What CEO do you follow? – Warren Buffett Favorite online tool? – DocuSign Do you get 8 hours of sleep? – No If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – It’s about how you make people feel.   Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:40 – Nathan introduces Bart to the show 02:35 – FullContact is a universal contact management platform 02:50 – FullContact is a SaaS business and payment is based on the number of contacts 03:08 – Developers can pay for a developer platform 03:17 – The developer access is Bart’s largest revenue stream 04:00 – FullContact is continually building new features 04:14 – FullContact also offers KPI services 04:37 – HubSpot uses FullContact 05:10 – FullContact was founded in 2010 05:30 – There is no application yet that is focused on contacts 06:01 – First year revenue 06:28 – Bart had a couple of businesses before FullContact 06:56 – FullContact was funded through raised capital 07:17 – How can someone look at that market and tell that it is too big to bootstrap? 07:53 – “It’s all about the size of your vision and how fast you want to execute” 08:30 – FullContact has millions of customers 08:55 – FullContact has above 50,000 paying customers 09:03 – Bart shares what’s included in the free plan and paid plan 09:40 – Average monthly RPU 10:05 – Bart discusses the type of  individuals using FullContact 11:05 – Average MRR 11:40 – FullContact in ARR 12:54 – Gross customer churn 13:18 – FullContact has an inside sales team helping their customers 13:37 – CAC 14:20 – Team location: they have a global presence 14:30 – Team size: 210-220 14:40 – FullContact had their Series C last August 2016 15:08 – How are investors in this space thinking about the SaaS valuation? 15:47 – They are looking at the SaaS business’ multipliers 16:00 – FullContact’s main competitors 16:35 – The MDM space 16:49 – Connect with Bart through FullContact and his email 18:18 – The Famous Five   3 Key Points: Analyze your business well and have a goal so you know where you’re going to start. Funding is a very important part of business. It’s NOT about how smart you are but how you make people feel.   Resources Mentioned: Acuity Scheduling – Nathan uses Acuity to schedule his podcast interviews and appointments Drip – Nathan uses Drip’s email automation platform and visual campaign builder to build his sales funnel Toptal – Nathan found his development team using Toptal for his new business Send Later. He was able to keep 100% equity and didn’t have to hire a co-founder due to the quality of Toptal Host Gator – The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for the cheapest price possible. Audible – Nathan uses Audible when he’s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5-hour drive) to listen to audio books. The Top Inbox  – The site Nathan uses to schedule emails to be sent later, set reminders in inbox, track opens and follow-up with email sequences Bart@FullContact.com – Bart’s email address Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives

Jeremy speaks to Bart Lorang, CEO of Full Contact, about the oh-so-social age of today and how he and his business keeps up. You’re likely to learn a thing or two from this successful entrepreneur who serves such a massive target audience. Bart also has a fascinating story on how he raised money and his journey throughout that process.

Jeremy speaks to Bart Lorang, CEO of Full Contact, about the oh-so-social age of today and how he and his business keeps up. You’re likely to learn a thing or two from this successful entrepreneur who serves such a massive target audience. Bart also has a fascinating story on how he raised money and his journey throughout that process.